James Michael "Jim" Dooley (born August 22, 1976) is an American film score composer, who composed the music for the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Biography[]
Jim Dooley is an Emmy Award-winning composer/songwriter with a diverse repertoire spanning the film, television, video gaming and live theatrical industries. He has earned accolades for his solo work as well as proud collaborations with many of the top names in music, from Hans Zimmer, Kristin Chenoweth to Babyface.
Dooley is currently scoring TNT’s hit drama “The Last Ship” with collaborator James S. Levine. He recently emerged into the Sports industry with his theme for the 2015 Senior PGA Championship, which can be heard on both NBC and the Golf Channel. Jim is currently the composer for “Lemony Snicket’s: A Series of Unfortunate Events” on Netflix, and the new live-action “Kim Possible” movie coming to The Disney Channel in 2019.
2014 was a busy year for Jim as he scored famed author Nicholas Sparks’ first television event for Lifetime titled “Deliverance Creek.” Two projects featuring Jim’s music were also honored with Academy Award nominations, the animated short “Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare”, and the live-action short “The Buzkashi Boys”.
In Television, Dooley has written original music for FX’s quirky series “Wilfred,” NBC’s “Mockingbird Lane & “Best Friends Forever,” CW’s “Emily Owens, M.D.” TBS’ satirical animated series, “Neighbors from Hell,” and ABC’s critically acclaimed series, “Pushing Daisies,” for which Dooley earned a 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for “Best Original Music Composition for a Series.”
In film, Dooley composed Screen Gems’ thriller “Obsessed” starring Beyoncé Knowles, Simon West’s remake of the cult-classic-thriller “When a Stranger Calls”, and Bahr Productions Inc.’s “The Forger,” starring Hayden Panettiere, Josh Hutcherson, Alfred Molina and Lauren Bacall. Dooley also wrote music for several animated feature scores such as the German animated release “Urmel aus dem Eis” (“Impy’s Island”) and its sequel; DreamWorks Animation’s musically acclaimed short “First Flight,” and worked closely with director Fred Savage on the theatrical sequel “Daddy Day Camp.”
Other projects for DreamWorks include: “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron,” “Madagascar” and “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” its spin-off short “A Christmas Caper,” the Academy Award-winning “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” and “Operation Got Your 6” featuring First Lady Michelle Obama and the Penguins of “Madagascar.”
Dooley’s expertise in other mediums can be found in the complex, interactive scores for best-selling videogame titles such as “Epic Mickey,” “Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two,” “Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes,” “Infamous” and “Infamous 2,” “NERF: N-Strike”, “Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier,” “SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy Seals,” “U.S. Navy Seals: Combined Assault.”
Dooley is a graduate of New York University, and upon completion of his degree, moved to Los Angeles to study the art of film composing at USC in the SMPTV program with prolific scoring legends Christopher Young, Elmer Bernstein and Leonard Rosenman. He joined Media Ventures (now Remote Control Productions) in 1999 and collaborated with Hans Zimmer on DreamWorks’ “Gladiator” and as an additional composer, arranger and orchestrator on Columbia Pictures’ “The Da Vinci Code,” Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” DreamWorks’ “The Ring,” and many others.[1]
Filmography[]
Composer[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | The Good Man's Sin | Short |
| 2000 | Bit Players | Short |
| 2001 | Area 52 | |
| 2002 | Papal Cab | Short |
| 2002 | Untitled: 003-Embryo | Short |
| 2002 | Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr | |
| 2002 | Dean Kamen | |
| 2003 | Smooth | Short |
| 2003 | The Louisiana Purchase | |
| 2003 | Agua Dulce | Short |
| 2003 | Come Lovely | Short |
| 2003 | Frontline/World | |
| 2003 | Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the Raiders, the '70s | |
| 2003 | Things Fall Apart | Short |
| 2003 | Life After War | |
| 2004 | Life on Liberty Street | |
| 2004 | Hollywood Mom's Mystery | |
| 2004 | Frenching | Short |
| 2003-2004 | Skin | |
| 2005 | Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't | |
| 2005 | Dead to Rights II | |
| 2005 | Detective | |
| 2005 | The Contender | |
| 2005 | Ordinary Miracles | |
| 2005 | The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper | |
| 2005 | SOCOM 3: U..S. Navy SEALs | Video Game |
| 2005 | SOCOM: U..S. Navy SEALs Firestorm Bravo | Video Game |
| 2006 | When a Stranger Calls | |
| 2006 | First Flight | Short |
| 2006 | Impy's Island | |
| 2006 | SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Combined Assault | Video Game |
| 2006 | What About Brian | |
| 2007 | Electroland | |
| 2007 | The Mars Underground | |
| 2007 | Daddy Day Camp | |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Game | Video Game |
| 2008 | Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation | |
| 2008 | Impy's Wonderland | |
| 2008 | The Simpsons Ride | Short |
| 2008 | The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning | |
| 2007-2009 | Pushing Daisies | |
| 2009 | Obsessed | |
| 2009 | inFamous | Video Game |
| 2009 | See You in Copenhagen | Short |
| 2009 | Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier | Video Game |
| 2009 | Crisis: New York Under Warer | |
| 2010 | Neighbors from Hell | |
| 2010 | Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions | Video Game |
| 2010 | Epic MIckey | Video Game |
| 2011 | inFamous 2 | Video Game |
| 2011 | Franklin & Bash | |
| 2011 | Wilfred | |
| 2011 | Poe | |
| 2012 | Slumber Party Slaughter | |
| 2012 | Best Friends Forever | |
| 2012 | The Forger | |
| 2012 | Buzkashi Boys | Short |
| 2012 | Mockingbird Lane | |
| 2012 | Emily Owens, M.D. | |
| 2012 | Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two | Video Game |
| 2013 | Barbie in the Pink Shoes | |
| 2013 | Knack | Video Game |
| 2013 | Jinxed | |
| 2013 | Murder in Manhattan | |
| 2014 | Barbie: The Pearl Princess | |
| 2014 | 10 Cent Pistol | |
| 2014 | The Simpsons Take the Bowl | |
| 2014 | Deliverance Creek | |
| 2014 | Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes | Video Game |
| 2014 | Dead Boss | |
| 2015 | Barbie in Princess Power | |
| 2015 | Toxin | |
| 2015 | Splitting Adam | |
| 2016 | Fifty Shades of Black | |
| 2016 | Satanic | |
| 2017 | Heartthrob | |
| 2017 | A Midsummer's Nightmare | |
| 2018 | A Tale of Two Coreys | |
| 2014-2018 | The Last Ship | |
| 2018-2019 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | |
| 2019 | Kim Possible | |
| 2019 | Secret Obsession | |
| 2020 | Playdate with Destiny | Short |
| Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets |
Soundtrack[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Tears of the Sun | Writer: "Cry In Silence" |
| 2003 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | Music: "Tower of Power" Uncredited |
| 2006 | The Secret | |
| 2007 | Nancy Drew | Music: "Lucky 13" Uncredited |
| 2007 | Young@Heart | Writer/Performer: "Crimson Joy" |
| 2008 | The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning | |
| 2007-2009 | Pushing Daisies | Arranger |
| 2009 | Middle Men | Writer/Performer: "True Grits" |
| 2010 | So You Think You Can Dance | Performer |
| 2012 | Arròs covat | Writer: "Hot and Heavy" |
| 2013 | Death Race: Inferno | Performer: "The Wings of Icarus" |
| 2013 | Barbie in the Pink Shoes | Producer/Writer: "Keep On Dancing" |
| 2013 | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Music: "Jester's Song" Writer: "China Dancing" |
| 2014 | Wilfred | Writer: "Wilfred Main Theme" Uncredited |
| 2014-2015 | The Last Ship | Writer |
| 2018 | The Diary | Writer: "Seven Little Dreams" |
Music Department[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Hannibal | Additional Arrangements |
| 2001 | Black Hawk Down | Musician: BHD |
| 2002 | The Time Machine | Additional Music Arranger |
| 2002 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Additional Music Arranger |
| 2002 | The Ring | Composer: Additional Music |
| 2003 | Tears of the Sun | Composer: Additional Music |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Composer: Additional Music |
| 2003 | Matchstick Men | Music Arranger / Programmer |
| 2003 | Something's Gotta Give | Composer: Additional Music |
| 2004 | Thunderbirds | Composer: Additional Music |
| 2005 | The Amityville Horror | Additional Music Programmer Uncredited |
| 2005 | HBO First Look | Additional Musician One Episode |
| 2005 | Madagascar | Composer: Additional Music |
| 2005 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Additional Music |
| 2006 | When a Stranger Calls | Conductor |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Composer: Additional Music Uncredited |
| 2006 | SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Combined Assault | Conductor |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | Composer: Additional Music |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Game | Orchestrator |
| 2008 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | Composer: Additional Music |
| 2010 | 'What Lies Beneath' Making Of | Orchestral Arrangements |
| 2012 | The Longest Daycare | Short Additional Music |
| 2012 | The Forger | Soundtrack Producer |
| 2012 | Wilfred | Composer |
| 2013 | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Songwriter |
| 2013-2014 | Doctor Who Online Adventures | Incidental Music |
| 2015 | Bad Blood | Composer |
| 2018 | The Last Ship | Composer |
Miscellaneous Crew[]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Gladiator | Assistant to Hans Zimmer |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible II | Assistant to Hans Zimmer |
| 2000 | An Everlasting Piece | Assistant to Hans Zimmer |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | Assistant to Hans Zimmer |
| 2001 | Riding in Cars with Boys | Assistant to Hans Zimmer |
Gallery[]
